Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Manuscript Leaf with Initial M, from a Missal” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Manuscript Leaf with Initial M, from a Missal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290

Leaf from a sketchbook
Grace D. Holt Newton · June 28, 1860

Manuscript Leaf with the Crucifixion, from a Missal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1270–80

Box
Artist not stated in the record · early–mid-17th century

Missal
Artist not stated in the record · 1472

Illustration for the Poem ‘Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat’
Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771 · 1753

Manuscript Leaf with Initial A, from a Gradual
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 15th century

3c 150th Anniversary of Ohio Statehood plate proof
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · February 16, 1953

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
Artist not stated in the record · late 9th–early 10th century

Red skullcap with leaf appliqué
Jelleff's, American, 1910 - 1979 · 1940s - 1950s

Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · 1869–80

Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: at the Clarion of the Fifth Angel's Trumpet, a Star Falls from the Sky; the Bottomless Pit is Opened with a Key; Emerging from the Smoke, Locusts Come Upon the Earth and Torment the Deathless
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180

Miser's purse
Artist not stated in the record · 1810–40

Manuscript Leaf with the Dedication of a Church in an Initial T, from a Gradual
Mariano del Buono · second half 15th century

Handkerchief
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

Manuscript Leaf with the Trinity in an Initial G, from an Antiphonary
Master of the Riccardiana Lactantius · second half 15th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Manuscript Leaf from a Missal
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

4c St. Lawrence Seaway plate proof
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · April 3, 1959

Manuscript Leaf with the Initial M, from an Antiphonary
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1425–50

Parinirvana of Buddha, from a Prajnaparamita manuscript
Artist not stated in the record · early 12th century

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Vase After the Antique
Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835 · 1789-1792
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 448 matched · 24 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2851215 matched · 40 examined · 27 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 01:45 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.